Monday, September 15, 2014

KLEM TV

Fair enough, but consider the source — over the past 12 years, the New York Times, when not going on benders on the evils of golf courses and air conditioning, and publishing outright fabulism, has, more recently, published pieces calling for the end of the US Constitution, and mocking the “fervid subsets of evangelical Christianity” of its presidential candidates — only, upon further review, to discover that these extreme worldviews are Catholicism, Lutheranism and Mormonism, bedrock religions of America’s history.  Its leading journalists have publicly called the citizens of the American midwest “The dance of the low-sloping foreheads” and filed William S. Burroughs-style stories of openly experimenting with drugs. And of course, in 2008, it went all-in to champion a man who was clearly not ready to be president, to the point of actively burying potentially damaging stories about him and refusing to run op-eds from his opponent.
Damn, I wish I could throw darts like that.  Read the whole thing here.  It's part of larger story.

27 comments:

bagoh20 said...

As if they don't have enough problems over there, Bagoh20 is here to point to some ammo to pile on.

I'm infinitely grateful to not be part of certain groups who have lost all credibility and replaced it with grievance. The sad thing is that these groups have nothing in their culture that informs them that this is a mistake - no self-awareness, no ability to look in the mirror. I feel incredibly lucky.

They got nothing

bagoh20 said...

I mean this is an open thread right?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

That was a good article in the Times.

chickelit said...

bagoh20 said...
I mean this is an open thread right?

You bet.

And that's a startling bunch of facts regarding patents. I think R&B mentioned a couple weeks ago about how few western books of any sort are translated into Arabic.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Are you guys saying Muslims are bitter clingers?

rcommal said...

I continue to worry about the use of "but" as opposed to "and"--about which I do think I have been quite, though certainly and absolutely not perfectly, consistent pretty much from the start.

rcommal said...

Eek! In a quick pare-down of a quick stop-by, I left out the "or" part originally attached to the "but" part.

To gather back and capture the dropped stitch, let me just say this before leaving this thread: A lot of life, IMO and IME (and I know most disagree, which is fine, because that's how life is and how it goes), is about "and" not "or" as well as that pesky, skeptical-enducing "but," to quickly encapsulate my generalized world view.

/my comments on this post

Over and out.

/

KCFleming said...

Good article, but the firepower is wasted.

Just STOP READING THE NYTIMES already.

Jeebus on roller skates. It's the Democrat Party paper. It's PRAVDA on the Hudson.

It's directive of bullshit-over-truth is old news.

The real scandal is not how crappy the NYTimes is, but the fact that millions of idiots want to be lied to.

Leftism is an evangelical religion.
The NYTimes is just part of their daily prayer.
MSNBC and CNN offer solace and approved meditations continuously throughout the day for the anxious liberal, who must not believe what his own eyes see, and entrusts interpretation to the televised imams.

John Stewart closes with a light evening prayer, and then they can sleep, and dream of being sheep.

Unknown said...

open thread? Have you seen the video of Bill Maher on Charlie Rose?

I've heard a few clips and Bill Maher, who normally drives me up a wall, does a great job smashing Rose's moral equivalence regurgitated cliché liberal group-think regarding Islam.

He exposes Charlie Rose as just another chump for the brain-dead, morally bankrupt left.

Unknown said...

Remember when the lock-step left regurgitated their phony discomfort over their inaccurate perception that GWB was destroying the constitution?

Ongoing proof the left are collectively mired in acute cognitive dissonance.

Unknown said...

Not supposed to point out the religious bigots on the left.

I live in leftwing lala land and many of my neighbors go to Church. Funny how lefty Christians are left unharmed
by the slopped forehead/cult insults.

Unknown said...

Seriously - grab a cup of coffee and watch Bill Maher, (yes - Bill Maher) destroy Charlie Rose.


btw- certain other blogger

Unknown said...

unfinished thought at the end. Just disregard.lol.

Unknown said...

Great post, chickl.

XRay said...

You're on a roll this morning, AA.

Unknown said...

Cigarette, coffee, fist full of pills... +bacon.

;)

ricpic said...

There is an article in today's Times (featured at Drudge) poopooing the warnings, from evil Republicans natch, that ISIS is crossing into the country from Mexico. The beat goes on. Did I misspell poopooing? Poohpoohing?

Unknown said...

Pogo - You nailed the religious cycle of progressive cult worship.

Unknown said...

Excellent link, Bagoh.

Islamic nations and Muslim cultures do not go hand in hand with modernity, intelligence, and innovation. Perhaps that's one reason they are so pissed all the time?

The Dude said...

Have you seen those massive anti-war demonstrations that have broken out in cities across the nation, snarling traffic, demanding that we bring our troops home now?

Yeah, me neither.

The Dude said...

AA - that and our women are much better looking than theirs.

Michael Haz said...

Elizabeth Scalia, Ed Driscoll, Roger Cohen. Man, there's a lot of meat in this sandwich.

The part missing form Roger Cohen's well-written parable is this: What happened next.

And that is where the parable will fail, because the last part of Cohen's parable, if we complete it for him, is the election of a heroic figure who will be more like Hillary Clinton than Ronald Reagan. Cohen's readers, and perhaps Cohen himself, see the answer as "more of the same, only slightly different".

And in that way, what Cohen has written will come true.

ricpic said...

Whatsamatta Sixty, you don't like the one-eyebrow look?

Michael Haz said...

Since this is an open thread -

Sending 3,000 American troops to Africa to fight Ebola has be about ready to pop my gaskets. This will, more than anything, bring Ebola to America. What the hell are troops going to do to "fight" Ebola?

It is a direct contradiction of Obama's middle east policy. The theory is to fight terrorism, you send military forces to where the terrorists are, which Obama will not do. Yet he will send troops - not medically trained personnel - to Africa where the Ebola virus is in order to 'fight' the virus.

What a moron.

And worse, the cost of the Ebola war will be paid by taking funds from the military operations in Afghanistan. Isn't that great? Take money out of the budget for beans and bullets in a hot combat zone.

What a moron. No, not a moron. He is duplicitous in causing America to become weaker and weaker, while placing our troops at greater risk.

The Dude said...

He has implemented a shoot-on-sight law for Ebola viruses.

chickelit said...

He is duplicitous in causing America to become weaker and weaker, while placing our troops at greater risk.

He wants desperately to be seen as a healer in Chief. He wants to live up to Peace Prize.

I can think of a few silver linings in the Ebola War: we will learn a hell of a lot quickly about deploying in biohazardous theaters -- this is good training for fighting enemies who wouldn't hesitate to fling SARIN gas in warfare. Ebola treatment and methodologies will ramp-up more quickly than otherwise. Black American soldiers might excel at soldiering under West African conditions. This would set a hell of a good example -- one better than rioting on Twitter over Ferguson and the "unfair" treatment of spoiled rotten Hollywood "stars."

I just hope that there isn't the usual nefarious meddling from those agents who always want us fail in humanitarian efforts -- whether it be the Soviets of yore or the animals in Syria and East Africa.

The Dude said...

CL wrote "Black American soldiers might excel at soldiering under West African conditions."

Have you jumped on the "Send 'em back to Africa" bandwagon? Sounds like you have been hanging around with Marcus "Crack" Garvey or something.